February 2010

One of the requests for the new Jeremy Day site was to have her
LiveJournal copied to the front page. My first thought was to use
jQuery’s wrapper around XMLHttpRequest to pull in the Atom feed and
process that with XSLT—but I had forgotten the ban on cross-site
requests. I decided the correct solution was to get my own proper server
at last, so I could host a cached copy of the LiveJournal page there. (I
have since been told that it is possible to instead use some gadget
from Yahoo.)
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